[dovecot] Re: dovecot-0.99.8.1 @ old redhat6.2 box

[Sebastian Pachuta]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 22:33:00 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 22:11, Sebastian Pachuta wrote:
> > I have some odd problem with running dovecot.
> > Program dies with message in maillog:
> > 
> > Mar 31 21:04:04 test-box dovecot: execv(imap-login) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> > System is redhat6.2 (with all updates), kernel is 2.2.25 (with openwall
> > patch). Under rh7.3 dovecot launches fine.
> 
> It's probably because of the openwall patch. Would this patch help?
> 
> diff -u -r1.38 login-process.c
> --- src/master/login-process.c  4 Mar 2003 22:38:08 -0000       1.38
> +++ src/master/login-process.c  31 Mar 2003 19:31:50 -0000
> @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@
>                         i_fatal("chdir(%s) failed: %m", set->login_dir);
>         }
>  
> -       restrict_process_size(group->set->process_size, 0);
> +       restrict_process_size(group->set->process_size, 1);
>  
>         /* make sure we don't leak syslog fd, but do it last so that
>            any errors above will be logged */
> 

Nope :(

With and without this patch there is no abuse info generated by openwall in
dmesg or /var/log/alert.